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/**
* Normalization of text before the tokenizer.
* <p>
* CharFilters are chainable filters that normalize text before tokenization
* and provide mappings between normalized text offsets and the corresponding
* offset in the original text.
* </p>
* <H2>CharFilter offset mappings</H2>
* <p>
* CharFilters modify an input stream via a series of substring
* replacements (including deletions and insertions) to produce an output
* stream. There are three possible replacement cases: the replacement
* string has the same length as the original substring; the replacement
* is shorter; and the replacement is longer. In the latter two cases
* (when the replacement has a different length than the original),
* one or more offset correction mappings are required.
* </p>
* <p>
* When the replacement is shorter than the original (e.g. when the
* replacement is the empty string), a single offset correction mapping
* should be added at the replacement's end offset in the output stream.
* The <code>cumulativeDiff</code> parameter to the
* <code>addOffCorrectMapping()</code> method will be the sum of all
* previous replacement offset adjustments, with the addition of the
* difference between the lengths of the original substring and the
* replacement string (a positive value).
* </p>
* <p>
* When the replacement is longer than the original (e.g. when the
* original is the empty string), you should add as many offset
* correction mappings as the difference between the lengths of the
* replacement string and the original substring, starting at the
* end offset the original substring would have had in the output stream.
* The <code>cumulativeDiff</code> parameter to the
* <code>addOffCorrectMapping()</code> method will be the sum of all
* previous replacement offset adjustments, with the addition of the
* difference between the lengths of the original substring and the
* replacement string so far (a negative value).
* </p>
*/
package org.apache.lucene.analysis.charfilter;